My boss, Tall and Grey, came over today and charged me with an all important task. We found this ring-binded document, “My Precious Environment: Things the NZ government does not want you to know” and I must carry it to be destroyed. I think he said it could be destroyed in the doom, oh wait [...]
Entries Tagged as ‘Misconceptions’
February 12, 2008
Addendum to Misconception Interception, Part 1-Environment
An interesting article was just published here discussing the clean, green image of NZ and the lengths people will go to to keep that image “100% Pure”. Apparently, a recently published environmental document had some of its ‘not-so-green findings’ omitted so as to not have NZ come across as unclean.
The ditched chapter [...]
February 8, 2008
Misconception Interception, Part 1: Environment
The picture painted to me about NZ was green or 100% Pure. I assumed NZ would not be as progressive as Europe, but at least on par with the USA, which we can debate all day about whether or not is environmentally responsible. Sadly, from my viewpoint with respect to NZ’s environmentalism, the Green title [...]
February 1, 2008
Misconception Interception
I am working on writing a series to post on here entitled “Misconception Interception” to provide a more honest point of view of life down under. Life here is not all about hikes in beautiful scenery that is free of environmental problems and hanging out with all the friendly mates. The purpose of this blog, [...]
